From left to right: Control Panel, Internet Explorer, Word 2010, Opera 11, Region Census (a tool for viewing Sim City 4 regions outside of Sim City 4), Excel 2010, Outlook 2010, Raptr, MAL Updater, Sim City 4 Region and Config Creator, ImgBurn, Opera 18, Windows Media Player, JDownloader, Calculator, Chrome, Windows Explorer, Firefox, Snipping Tool, Steam, and VLC Media Player.
I know that seems like a lot, but the rabbit hole goes a bit deeper: I have 4 spreadsheets pinned under the Excel icon (budget, new budget, some abandoned tracker of my Pokemon TCG collection, and a spreadsheet I use for a game called XpertEleven), 4 folder locations pinned under the Windows Explorer icon (Documents, Desktop, Icons, Downloads, and a shortcut to one of my externals that's not currently plugged in), and 6 games/programs pinned via the Steam icon (Sim City 4 Deluxe, Game Dev Tycoon, You Need A Budget 4, Victoria, II, Cities In Motion 2, Age of Empires II: HD Edition, and Out of the Park Baseball 2015).
And that's not all. In my start menu, I also have MakeMKV, CSE HTML Validator 10, Steam (again), Civilization IV, Minecraft, Technic Launcher, CPU-Z, Solitaire, Katawa Shoujo, KeePass 2, Notepad (with 3 additional items pinned with it), and PokePedia pinned.
If you couldn't tell, I find pinning to be very useful.